Re: How to build a BROKEN port?
On 30 December 2010 07:21, Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: On 12/30/10 15:52, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Charlie Kestercorky1...@comcast.net wrote: Most of the time, possessives are formed with apostrophe+s. I'm not sure, but its might be the only exception to the rule ... It's seems to be the most common misusage, but I have seen her's, our's, and occasionally their's. Interestingly, I've never seen anyone write hi's when meaning his. On the other hand, people who write loose when they mean lose deserve our most scathing scorn. :) Perhaps they have merely lost their linguistic bearings. Innaddverttentt ddoubblle llettterss ccann occcassionnallly bbee ccaussedd bby ffllakkeey kkeeybbooarddss :)) I find most teenagers (and getting older too) can't tell the difference- and its not their keyboards. Oddly enough, their teachers do it on a regular basis as well: in their handwriting! This teacher doesn't thank you very much! That is, if the poor kids can read my writing Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Any recommendations for FreeBSD VPS hosting?
On 30/12/2010 01:21, n j wrote: Thanks for the input, I'll look into the suggested options: http://arpnetworks.com/vps http://www.rootbsd.net/virtual-hosting/ http://www.johncompanies.com/jc_bsd.html If you know of any other FreeBSD VPS providers, please share. For people this side of the pond, Not *V*PS, but hetzner.de provide some pretty good deals on dedicated servers. exonetric.com do FreeBSD Jails elastichosts.com do VPSes of all sorts, including FreeBSD on top of LinuxKVM. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: How to build a BROKEN port?
On 12/30/10 18:10, Chris Rees wrote: On 30 December 2010 07:21, Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: On 12/30/10 15:52, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Charlie Kestercorky1...@comcast.netwrote: Most of the time, possessives are formed with apostrophe+s. I'm not sure, but its might be the only exception to the rule ... It's seems to be the most common misusage, but I have seen her's, our's, and occasionally their's. Interestingly, I've never seen anyone write hi's when meaning his. On the other hand, people who write loose when they mean lose deserve our most scathing scorn. :) Perhaps they have merely lost their linguistic bearings. Innaddverttentt ddoubblle llettterss ccann occcassionnallly bbee ccaussedd bby ffllakkeey kkeeybbooarddss :)) I find most teenagers (and getting older too) can't tell the difference- and its not their keyboards. Oddly enough, their teachers do it on a regular basis as well: in their handwriting! This teacher doesn't thank you very much! That is, if the poor kids can read my writing Chris Sorry, but on the upside it does seem to be centered on Queensland, Australia; with expanding concentric circles from there. The driving tends to follow this general intelligence level as well... ;) (I was brought up and taught in the southern states) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to build a BROKEN port?
On 12/30/10 20:12, Eitan Adler wrote: Edit the port's Makefile and comment-out the BROKEN line. Generally - don't do this. I kinda got that impression already, but can someone enlighten me why (apart from the obvious, of course- it could break the makefile if you forget)? And is that in general or just this line? I ask because I'm currently editing the Makefile with some new variables to test a fix. Oh, the irony! :) I considered doing that, but I thought there might have been some magic incantation that got around this... There is make -DTRYBROKEN Thanks for the reply, but can someone tell me if this is documented anywhere particularly? I'm going to be pissed if I missed it ;) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to build a BROKEN port?
Edit the port's Makefile and comment-out the BROKEN line. Generally - don't do this. Oh, the irony! :) I considered doing that, but I thought there might have been some magic incantation that got around this... There is make -DTRYBROKEN -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Portmaster general questions and problems
Threads about portmaster and portupgrade status raise the question, what flags for portmaster are comparable to -R and -r for portupgrade? I might want to portupgrade a package and all its dependencies (-R), or less frequently, all packages that depend on the package to be portupgraded (-r). How would I do that using portmaster? I read both man pages many times. Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to build a BROKEN port?
On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:31:37 -0800, mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: Giorgos == Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr writes: Giorgos Edit it's 'Makefile'. Look for an assignment of the form: Minor nit... that's its not it's. If you can't say it is or it has in place, then it's its, not it's. :) True. I should be more careful about spelling when I post aftre 02:00am in the night! Thanks :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to build a BROKEN port?
On 30/12/2010 10:37, Da Rock wrote: On 12/30/10 20:12, Eitan Adler wrote: Edit the port's Makefile and comment-out the BROKEN line. Generally - don't do this. I kinda got that impression already, but can someone enlighten me why (apart from the obvious, of course- it could break the makefile if you forget)? And is that in general or just this line? This advice is correct for someone who just wants to /use/ the ports -- not so good if your intention is to /develop/ the ports. And I think fixing the reason a port is marked BROKEN certainly puts you in the development camp. A very good tip: if you are editing the port, then it pays to check it out from one of the anon-CVS servers while you work on it. You get all the usual VCS capabilities and it's easier to revert any changes etc. You don't need to check out the whole ports tree -- just your port of interest will be fine, and you don't need to keep it in the normal ports tree. See Ion Mihai's article here for lots of good practices: http://ionut.tetcu.info/FreeBSD/How-to-submit-a-diff.txt and all about FreeBSD Anon-CVS here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/anoncvs.html Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: How to build a BROKEN port?
Thanks for the reply, but can someone tell me if this is documented anywhere particularly? I'm going to be pissed if I missed it ;) It does not seem to be documented anywhere. I found it by grepping for BROKEN in the Mk subdirectory. I will submit a pr now to add it to ports(7) and the top of bsd.port.mk -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to build a BROKEN port?
I'm pretty sure it's in the Porter's Handbook under the marking as BROKEN section Chris Sorry for top-posting, Android won't let me quote, but K-9 can't yet do threading. On 30 Dec 2010 11:32, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: Thanks for the reply, but can someone tell me if this is documented anywhere particularly? I'm going to be pissed if I missed it ;) It does not seem to be documented anywhere. I found it by grepping for BROKEN in the Mk subdirectory. I will submit a pr now to add it to ports(7) and the top of bsd.port.mk -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to build a BROKEN port?
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm pretty sure it's in the Porter's Handbook under the marking as BROKEN
section
Heh - now I feel silly for missing it :-{
Either way it should be documented in ports(7) and bsd.port.mk.
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Re: Portmaster general questions and problems
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:59:49 + Thomas Mueller mueller6...@bellsouth.net wrote: Threads about portmaster and portupgrade status raise the question, what flags for portmaster are comparable to -R and -r for portupgrade? I might want to portupgrade a package and all its dependencies (-R), or less frequently, all packages that depend on the package to be portupgraded (-r). How would I do that using portmaster? I read both man pages many times. Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Hi Tom, I never gave it much thought, however, I am under the impression that portmaster does not require an explicit flag to do that. When installing some port, then I use portmaster -D /usr/port/some port path, the -D determining that I do not want to be prompted whether to retain the old distfiles or not, but to retain them (-d being the converse and deleting old distfiles). Using portmaster in the way described checks for dependencies and automagically updates them in case there are newer available. Cheers, -- Christopher J. Ruwe TZ GMT + 1 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: How to build a BROKEN port?
I agree. Go for it!
Chris
Sorry for top-posting, Android won't let me quote, but K-9 can't yet do
threading.
On 30 Dec 2010 11:44, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote:
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm pretty sure it's in the Porter's Handbook under the marking as BROKEN
section
Heh - now I feel silly for missing it :-{
Either way it should be documented in ports(7) and bsd.port.mk.
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Re: Portmaster general questions and problems
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:47:59 +0100 Christopher J. Ruwe c...@cruwe.de wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:59:49 + Thomas Mueller mueller6...@bellsouth.net wrote: Threads about portmaster and portupgrade status raise the question, what flags for portmaster are comparable to -R and -r for portupgrade? I might want to portupgrade a package and all its dependencies (-R), or less frequently, all packages that depend on the package to be portupgraded (-r). How would I do that using portmaster? I read both man pages many times. Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Hi Tom, I never gave it much thought, however, I am under the impression that portmaster does not require an explicit flag to do that. When installing some port, then I use portmaster -D /usr/port/some port path, the -D determining that I do not want to be prompted whether to retain the old distfiles or not, but to retain them (-d being the converse and deleting old distfiles). Using portmaster in the way described checks for dependencies and automagically updates them in case there are newer available. Cheers, Sorry for missing one part (the -r) of your question ... how does [-R] -r name/glob of port directory in /var/db/pkg rebuild the specified port, and all ports that depend on it in the portmaster man page sound to you and does it do what you a requiring? cheers, -- Christopher J. Ruwe TZ GMT + 1 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
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Re: How to build a BROKEN port?
On 12/30/10 21:44, Eitan Adler wrote:
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Chris Reesutis...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm pretty sure it's in the Porter's Handbook under the marking as BROKEN
section
Heh - now I feel silly for missing it :-{
Either way it should be documented in ports(7) and bsd.port.mk.
Not as silly as me: I read through that section thoroughly trying to
work out the mechanics of it all, and the bsd.port.mk file...
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Gnome-Panel fails to upgrade
?I am unable to upgrade /x11/gnome-panel. every time i run portupgrade -a, i fails with the following line while compiling --- g-ir-scanner: warning: Option --strip-prefix has been deprecated; see --identifier-prefix and --symbol-prefix. Couldn't find include 'GConf-2.0.gir' (search path: ['.', '/usr/local/share/gir-1.0', '/usr/share/gir-1.0', '/usr/local/share/gir-1.0']) gmake[3]: *** [PanelApplet-3.0.gir] Error 1 gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/x11/gnome-panel/work/gnome-panel-2.32.1/libpanel-applet' this obviously has the bad effect of blocking 21 other ports from getting updated (aka, the rest of gnome) anyone have any clue of what needs to be done to fix this issue? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Gnome-Panel fails to upgrade
On 12/30/10 23:41, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: ?I am unable to upgrade /x11/gnome-panel. every time i run portupgrade -a, i fails with the following line while compiling --- g-ir-scanner: warning: Option --strip-prefix has been deprecated; see --identifier-prefix and --symbol-prefix. Couldn't find include 'GConf-2.0.gir' (search path: ['.', '/usr/local/share/gir-1.0', '/usr/share/gir-1.0', '/usr/local/share/gir-1.0']) gmake[3]: *** [PanelApplet-3.0.gir] Error 1 gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/x11/gnome-panel/work/gnome-panel-2.32.1/libpanel-applet' this obviously has the bad effect of blocking 21 other ports from getting updated (aka, the rest of gnome) anyone have any clue of what needs to be done to fix this issue? Have you checked the search path yourself? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
graphics/graphviz fails to install
I'm following pr 147290, and I'm trying to fix it. I'm not sure how OpenEXR got involved but it is, and I need some help figuring out posix threads. I know I've bitten off way more than I can probably chew, but I will anyway :) I swallowed whole a medium mandarin when I was ten, so I'm used to it. The output where it failed: if test x = x; then if test -x /usr/local/bin/dot; then if test -x /sbin/ldconfig; then /sbin/ldconfig 2/dev/null; fi; /usr/local/bin/dot -c; else /usr/local/bin/dot_static -c; fi; fi terminate called after throwing an instance of 'Iex::EinvalExc' what(): Cannot lock mutex (Invalid argument). gmake[4]: *** [install-exec-hook] Abort trap: 6 (core dumped) Based on the info in the pr and looking at IlmThreadPool.cpp, it seems that thread is locked in preparation for its destruction. It can't lock and so it has a bitch about it and throws something. Why I think along these lines is as I've read in the pr (someone more experienced than me debugged this far) the program fails at the lock(threadMutex) function and doesn't even run the finish() which shuts them down nicely (as I see it). According to IlmThreadPool.cpp finish() signals the threads to stop and waits for them. But if it can't lock and finish() doesn't run then SHTF and it complains. Am I way off track? Or am I clear as mud? I think I'm struggling to find why it won't lock... One thought that crossed my mind is that the thread and/or mutex doesn't exist at this point- hence the invalid argument. I read wikipedia on posix threads, and I know that doesn't even come close to what I facing here; I need to learn somehow though :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
gnome to kde
I want to use kde instead of gnome How can i delete gnome completely (I am afraid to delete others or less delete ) thank you ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: gnome to kde
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:53 AM, xinyou yan yxy@gmail.com wrote: I want to use kde instead of gnome How can i delete gnome completely (I am afraid to delete others or less delete ) Use pkg_rmleaves (ports) to remove the leaf ports of gnome and keep in going thru until you don't see anything to gnome related. IMHO its better when doing such a massive switch to either a) delete all the ports from your system and start from scratch or b) leave the kde stuff and delete the ones you don't use during your normal cleaning cycle. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote:
I don't expect this to be anything like that. Please show a) how many
slices you allocated and how big this FreeBSD slice is and b) how you
partitioned the FreeBSD slice into (and sizes of) / /var/ /usr [/tmp?]
and especially swap.
I wouldn't allocate any less than 1GB for your root (/) partition esp.
if building custom kernel/s; maybe that's fixed in sysinstall for 8.2?
cheers, Ian (please cc me on any reply; I take -questions as a digest)
I cleaned out the thread, leaving only your last bit of questions here.
I did apparently screw up the 'dd' cmd, I retyped it correctly, below is my
(very carefully) retyped recreation of the Fixit prompt;
[..]
Fixit# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad4 oseek-0 bs=512 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes transferred ub 0.044723 secs (11448 bytes/sec)
Fixit# fdisk -Bi /dev/ad4
*** Working on device /dev/ad4 ***
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=1453521 heads=16 sectors/tracks=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=1453521 heads=16 sectors/tracks=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
Do you want to change our idea of what BIOS thinks ? [n]
[..]
This is where I stopped, admittedly, I do not know how to use FreeBSD's
fdisk. For the sake of brevity and to move along, I'll break fdisk here and
move back to sysinstall and provide what information I can this way.
From sysinstalls menu, I choose 'Standard', next is the usual message about
fdisk partitioning schemes. After this, I get a 'User Confirmation Request',
which is very similar to the warning I received above. It says
[..]
WARNING: It is safe to use a geometry of 1453521/16/63 for ad4 on computers
with modern BIOS versions. If this disk is to be uised on an old machine it
is recommended that it does not have more then 65535 cylinders, more then
255 heads, or more then 63 sectors per track.
Would you like to keep using the current geometry?
Yes No
[..]
This is where I have two choices
Choice 1 (YES) produces the following in fdisk when choosing 'a' to use the
whole disk.
[..]
OffsetSize(ST)EndNamePTypeDescSubtype
Flags
06362-12unused0
6314651491051465149167ad4s18freebsd165
[..]
Choice 2 (NO) produces the following in fdisk when choosing 'a' to use the
whole disk.
[..]
If you are not sure about this, please consult the Hardware Guide in the
Documentation submenu or use the {G}eometry command to change it. Remember:
You need to eneter whatever your BIOS thinks the geometry is! For IDE, it's
what you were told in the BIOS setup. For SCSI, It's the translation mode
your controller is using. Do NOT use a ''physical geometry''.
OK
[..]
[..]
OffsetSize(ST)EndNamePTypeDescSubtype
Flags
06362-12unused0
6314651440021465144064ad4s18freebsd165
146514406551031465149167-12unused0
[..]
Decidedly, the end result is approximately 698GB for the usable partition,
the second choice giving me a padding on both sides of the freebsd slice.
Moving on now, I choose the following
Standard MBR
Disklebel Editor
[..]
PartMountSizenewfs
--
ad4s1a/512MBUFS2 Y
ad4s1bswap4096MBSWAP
ad4s1d/var4973MBUFS2+S Y
ad4s1e/tmp512MBUFS2+S Y
ad4s1f/usr688GBUFS2+S Y
[..]
Decidedly not my first choice for 8.1/amd64, but I can fix that layout
later, once I know how to get the system installed correctly.
'Q' to quick and continue, I choose 'Minimal' then 'CD/DVD' as my
installation media. I got the usual 'Last Chance' warning and then bam, I
get
[..]
Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s1b in /dev!
The creation of filesystems will be aborted.
OK
Couldn't make filesystems properly. Aborting.
OK
Installation completed with some errors. You may wish to scroll through the
debugging messages on VTY1 with the scroll-lock feature. You can also choose
No at the next prompt and go back into the installation menus to retry
whichever operations have failed.
OK
[..]
And this is where I am left. Hopefully, I've been explicit enough this time
:D Again, if I've missed something, please let me know and I shall provide
it.
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Detecting updates to ports not installed
Hello fellow BSDophiles, The chromium port is trying my patience. I'm not using it now, because of its unpatched vulnerabilities. Buit I'm keeping it installed, so I'll be notified by portversion when an update comes through. Is there a more excellent way to receive the same sort of notification for a port that is not installed? Regards, -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com pgpVo2uklGykN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Detecting updates to ports not installed
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 08:19:00AM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: Hello fellow BSDophiles, The chromium port is trying my patience. I'm not using it now, because of its unpatched vulnerabilities. Buit I'm keeping it installed, so I'll be notified by portversion when an update comes through. Is there a more excellent way to receive the same sort of notification for a port that is not installed? I think you can use http://www.freshports.org for that purpose. (I have never used it myself, but it looks like it should do the trick.) -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Portmaster general questions and problems
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010, Thomas Mueller wrote: Threads about portmaster and portupgrade status raise the question, what flags for portmaster are comparable to -R and -r for portupgrade? I might want to portupgrade a package and all its dependencies (-R), or less frequently, all packages that depend on the package to be portupgraded (-r). How would I do that using portmaster? I read both man pages many times. Those look backwards to me. It's extremely rare for me to upgrade everything that a given port depends on (-R), but common to upgrade a port and everything that depends on it (-r). Anyway... as I understand the man pages: portmaster ...= portupgrade -r ... portmaster -r ... = portupgrade -rf ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Detecting updates to ports not installed
Quoth Erik Trulsson on Thursday, 30 December 2010: On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 08:19:00AM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: Hello fellow BSDophiles, The chromium port is trying my patience. I'm not using it now, because of its unpatched vulnerabilities. Buit I'm keeping it installed, so I'll be notified by portversion when an update comes through. Is there a more excellent way to receive the same sort of notification for a port that is not installed? I think you can use http://www.freshports.org for that purpose. (I have never used it myself, but it looks like it should do the trick.) -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se The regular freshports newsletter includes new ports and some version updates, but not all. I don't see a way to subscribe to all updates for chromium (e.g.). But perhaps I'm just missing the appropriate link. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com pgpwBpZmV2DS1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Detecting updates to ports not installed
On 30/12/2010 18:51, Chip Camden wrote: The regular freshports newsletter includes new ports and some version updates, but not all. I don't see a way to subscribe to all updates for chromium (e.g.). But perhaps I'm just missing the appropriate link. If you make yourself an account at freshports.org, you can create a watchlist. You place whatever ports interest you on it, and you'll get e-mail any time a change to that port is committed. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Detecting updates to ports not installed
Quoth Matthew Seaman on Thursday, 30 December 2010: On 30/12/2010 18:51, Chip Camden wrote: The regular freshports newsletter includes new ports and some version updates, but not all. I don't see a way to subscribe to all updates for chromium (e.g.). But perhaps I'm just missing the appropriate link. If you make yourself an account at freshports.org, you can create a watchlist. You place whatever ports interest you on it, and you'll get e-mail any time a change to that port is committed. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW Bingo! Thanks, that's exactly what I needed. Although it took a while to figure out how to do it. Suggestion for Freshports: add an add to watch list button on the page for each port. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com pgpfMcEwaW1XN.pgp Description: PGP signature
disyfiles
hey i have a freeBSD 8.1 RELEASE system working off-line and a windows b'band connection my b'band connection has downloads limits i would like to get a hold of all 'relevant' distilfes - the current size of the complete distfiles tree is 140GB i have cottoned onto the idea of having somebody copy the entire tree onto HDD and posting it over if there is a department that is able to do this or you have any other ideas for a solution do let me know happy to pay a few bucks - though i am not pro - just for hobbies thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to build a BROKEN port?
On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:52:48 -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Interestingly, I've never seen anyone write hi's when meaning his. Come to Germany, where ' is used to * indicate that a s will follow, * indicate that a t will follow, or * indicate that the word will end. In most cases, ' is replaced by `. Inn Germenny new Englis Orfograffy iss, very importent too the shildren in schol were thei ha've learn how to propperly write. Nicht`s ist verboten, wenn man nich't erwischt wird. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Firefox 3.6 and Java ?
On Wednesday 29 December 2010 17:56:03 John Levine wrote: I gather that Firefox 3.6 still doesn't work with Java, since the glue hasn't been updated. Is anyone likely to be working on this? I'm willing in principle, although my knowledge of both Firefox and Java internals is, ah, somewhat limited. R's, John I also have this problem with the installation of Firefox. The installation process searches for files which it cannot find. When I search for them on websites for Java I cannot find some of the particular files it asks for. It seems that the version of Firefox I find for FreeBSD is not the latest Firefox version. So it wants java programmes that are too old and not found on the java websites anymore. Richard. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
freeBSDFoundation donate problem
I've just tried again to donate to the foundation for the end of year push, but 3 UK based cards all failed on the groundspring interface ( 2 x visa, 1 x mastercard, all had funds obv) Paypal also failed stating i couldn't use this card for the transaction (which is usable for other purchases fine) Has anyone else had a problem ( or succeeded) in donakting via the UK, maybe there's a wider problem here.. Am posting as maybe someone knows someone who can take a look ( dru lavigne i think is related to the foundation) Also groundsprings support message lists a bouncing support address, major g... gspring_supp...@tides.org: host tides.org.s8b2.psmtp.com[64.18.7.14] said: 550 No such user - psmtp (in reply to RCPT TO command) Paul. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Portmaster general questions and problems
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: Those look backwards to me. It's extremely rare for me to upgrade everything that a given port depends on (-R), but common to upgrade a port and everything that depends on it (-r). I've used -R before to correct situations where a freshly built port misbehaves due to some of its dependencies being too old. It's also sometimes handy when there are ABI changes involved, as sometimes happens with things like Perl and PHP. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freeBSDFoundation donate problem
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:04:23PM +, Paul Macdonald wrote: I've just tried again to donate to the foundation for the end of year push, but 3 UK based cards all failed on the groundspring interface ( 2 x visa, 1 x mastercard, all had funds obv) Paypal also failed stating i couldn't use this card for the transaction (which is usable for other purchases fine) Has anyone else had a problem ( or succeeded) in donakting via the UK, maybe there's a wider problem here.. Am posting as maybe someone knows someone who can take a look ( dru lavigne i think is related to the foundation) Also groundsprings support message lists a bouncing support address, major g... gspring_supp...@tides.org: host tides.org.s8b2.psmtp.com[64.18.7.14] said: 550 No such user - psmtp (in reply to RCPT TO command) Paul. I've succeeded donating from the UK using the Paypal button and a credit card using this page: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/ I couldn't get the DonateNow route to work. If you try again and still can't get it to work then email: Deb Goodkin deb AT freebsdfoundation.org and maybe she can help you out. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Why are YT vids on FreeBSD all about hacking MSN? (solved)
I wanted to watch some videos about FreeBSD, so I went to Youtube and searched on FreeBSD. Then I sorted by Date Uploaded, and almost all the videos uploaded recently are about hacking MSN. I went to the people's profiles, and they had no videos available. I am guessing that people are creating fake YT accounts to post a video that then gets removed by YT. It makes it impossible to find recent YT videos about FreeBSD. I just wondering if anyone else noticed this. If you do the basic YT search sorted on Relevance, you get really old FreeBSD videos. SOLVED: I just noticed you can filter out msn from your results by searching for freebsd -msn. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Where to post FreeBSD tutorials?
If I write a document about how to do something with FreeBSD, is there a good place to post it, or a link to it? Something like how to edit a video in FreeBSD, not official documentation. I usually have to google things to find them, and often find the answer on stackoverflow or howtoforge. Sometimes it hard to find things in google, and sometimes I'm not sure what I'm looking for. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Any recommendations for FreeBSD VPS hosting?
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 05:32:28PM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: n == n j nin...@gmail.com writes: n Thanks for the input, I'll look into the suggested options: n http://arpnetworks.com/vps n http://www.rootbsd.net/virtual-hosting/ n http://www.johncompanies.com/jc_bsd.html There are rumors of a FreeBSD AMI for Amazon S3 as well, although I can't find it on the prebuilt AMI pages yet. http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2010-12-13-FreeBSD-on-EC2.html Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
HDD READ/Timeout messages after 8.2 Upgrade
Greetings, I replaced mobo/cpu/ram today and found the onboard nic not fully recognized. Since the kernel is just over a year old I decided to try a system upgrade to see if the new hardware would get recognized. I did a csup this afternoon, then a build world/kernel (kernel is default but without debugging enabled). After the reboot step, the system has started spewing hdd errors such as: ad6: TIMEOUT - READ retrying (1 retry left) LBA=575 Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/label/rootfs ad6: TIMEOUT - READ retrying (1 retry left) LBA=3401887 ad6: TIMEOUT - READ retrying (1 retry left) LBA=3403135 ad6: TIMEOUT - READ retrying (1 retry left) LBA=3409375 ad6: TIMEOUT - READ retrying (1 retry left) LBA=3775391 ad6: TIMEOUT - READ retrying (1 retry left) LBA=388383 ad6: TIMEOUT - READ retrying (1 retry left) LBA=388427 ad6: TIMEOUT - READ retrying (1 retry left) LBA=388463 ad6: TIMEOUT - READ retrying (1 retry left) LBA=388495 ad6: TIMEOUT - READ retrying (1 retry left) LBA=388743 ad6: TIMEOUT - READ retrying (1 retry left) LBA=388795 ad6: TIMEOUT - READ retrying (1 retry left) LBA=389087 ad6: TIMEOUT - READ retrying (1 retry left) LBA=389015 ad6: TIMEOUT - READ retrying (1 retry left) LBA=389075 ad6: TIMEOUT - READ retrying (1 retry left) LBA=3407999 ad6: TIMEOUT - READ retrying (1 retry left) LBA=2660479 ad6: TIMEOUT - READ retrying (1 retry left) LBA=2760223 ad6: TIMEOUT - READ retrying (1 retry left) LBA=2742879 ZFS filesystem version 4 ZFS storage pool version 15 ad6: TIMEOUT - READ retrying (1 retry left) LBA=2652351 ad6: TIMEOUT - READ retrying (1 retry left) LBA=2633899 ad6: TIMEOUT - READ retrying (0 retries left) LBA=2633899 ad6: TIMEOUT - READ retrying (1 retry left) LBA=2652159 ad12: TIMEOUT - READ_MUL48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=1704757232 ad14: TIMEOUT - READ_MUL48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=637648115 ad14: TIMEOUT - READ_MUL48 retrying (0 retries left) LBA=637648115 ad8: TIMEOUT - READ_MUL48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=637646968 ad12: TIMEOUT - READ_MUL48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=637646967 ad14: TIMEOUT - READ_MUL48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=1682297102 ad6: TIMEOUT - READ retrying (1 retry left) LBA=3400319 /copy The hardware is a 30g SSD for the O/S and system, and a 4x 2TB RAIDZ array for all else. Reverting to the old kernel has gotten the system back to normal operation, but I would like to move forward. I found a message from someone experiencing a similar issue, but it was geli related and had hardware errors in the message. Above ad6 is the UFS SSD, all other drives are SATA RAIDZ spinning disks (ad16 is non-raid spinning disk ZFS). I have attached the dmesg from the 8.2 PRE-RELEASE kernel. The physical hardware seems fine, particularly since it works on the 8.0 system. Not sure how to troubleshoot and isolate the issue. Any pointers? TIA Copyright (c) 1992-2010 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE #0: Thu Dec 30 17:05:48 PST 2010 u...@example.com:/spare/obj/spare/src/sys/FRODO amd64 Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 640 Processor (3010.07-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = AuthenticAMD Id = 0x100f53 Family = 10 Model = 5 Stepping = 3 Features=0x178bfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT Features2=0x802009SSE3,MON,CX16,POPCNT AMD Features=0xee500800SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,Page1GB,RDTSCP,LM,3DNow!+,3DNow! AMD Features2=0x37ffLAHF,CMP,SVM,ExtAPIC,CR8,ABM,SSE4A,MAS,Prefetch,OSVW,IBS,SKINIT,WDT TSC: P-state invariant real memory = 8589934592 (8192 MB) avail memory = 8251383808 (7869 MB) ACPI APIC Table: 082410 APIC1853 FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 4 core(s) cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 2 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 3 ioapic0 Version 2.1 irqs 0-23 on motherboard kbd1 at kbdmux0 acpi0: 082410 XSDT1853 on motherboard acpi0: [ITHREAD] ACPI Error: [PCI0] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20101013/dswload-772) ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, During name lookup/catalog (20101013/psloop-326) ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\\] (Node 0x80c2e460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20101013/psparse-633) acpi0: Power Button (fixed) acpi0: reservation of fee0, 1000 (3) failed acpi0: reservation of ffb8, 8 (3) failed acpi0: reservation of fec1, 20 (3) failed acpi0: reservation of fed8, 1000 (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 0, a (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 10, dfe0 (3) failed Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: 32-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0 cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 cpu1: ACPI CPU on acpi0 cpu2: ACPI CPU on acpi0 cpu3: ACPI CPU on acpi0 acpi_ec0: Embedded Controller: GPE
Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:17:48 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote:
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote:
I don't expect this to be anything like that. Please show a) how many
slices you allocated and how big this FreeBSD slice is and b) how you
partitioned the FreeBSD slice into (and sizes of) / /var/ /usr [/tmp?]
and especially swap.
I wouldn't allocate any less than 1GB for your root (/) partition esp.
if building custom kernel/s; maybe that's fixed in sysinstall for 8.2?
I cleaned out the thread, leaving only your last bit of questions here.
Goodo. I'll try chopping a bit too ..
I did apparently screw up the 'dd' cmd, I retyped it correctly, below is my
(very carefully) retyped recreation of the Fixit prompt;
[..]
Fixit# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad4 oseek-0 bs=512 count=1
Assuming that's 'oseek=0', which is the default anyway.
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes transferred ub 0.044723 secs (11448 bytes/sec)
Fixit# fdisk -Bi /dev/ad4
*** Working on device /dev/ad4 ***
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=1453521 heads=16 sectors/tracks=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=1453521 heads=16 sectors/tracks=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
Do you want to change our idea of what BIOS thinks ? [n]
[..]
This is where I stopped, admittedly, I do not know how to use FreeBSD's
fdisk. For the sake of brevity and to move along, I'll break fdisk here and
move back to sysinstall and provide what information I can this way.
Fair enough. 'what BIOS thinks' here is fine on modern disks/boxes, but
the issue here is what a new(ish) user might conceive of as 'modern'!
From sysinstalls menu, I choose 'Standard', next is the usual message about
fdisk partitioning schemes. After this, I get a 'User Confirmation Request',
which is very similar to the warning I received above. It says
[..]
WARNING: It is safe to use a geometry of 1453521/16/63 for ad4 on computers
with modern BIOS versions. If this disk is to be uised on an old machine it
is recommended that it does not have more then 65535 cylinders, more then
255 heads, or more then 63 sectors per track.
Would you like to keep using the current geometry?
Yes No
[..]
This is where I have two choices
Choice 1 (YES) produces the following in fdisk when choosing 'a' to use the
whole disk.
[..]
OffsetSize(ST)EndNamePTypeDescSubtype
Flags
06362-12unused0
6314651491051465149167ad4s18freebsd165
[..]
Yes, you should go with this. 'modern BIOS versions' here refers to
anything later than (roughly) the mid-90s! An 'old machine' in this
context - remembering sysinstall was originally written then - was one
not using LBA (logical block addressing), when 8GB was a fairly big HD
at least for IDE, when the 'big guys' were mostly using SCSI disks.
That message is actually a lot less scary than it was until a couple of
years ago, when it used to cause much more angst and regular posts, see:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/disks.c.diff?r1=1.160;r2=1.161;f=h
Choice 2 (NO) produces the following in fdisk when choosing 'a' to use the
whole disk.
[..]
If you are not sure about this, please consult the Hardware Guide in the
Documentation submenu or use the {G}eometry command to change it. Remember:
You need to eneter whatever your BIOS thinks the geometry is! For IDE, it's
what you were told in the BIOS setup. For SCSI, It's the translation mode
your controller is using. Do NOT use a ''physical geometry''.
OK
[..]
[..]
OffsetSize(ST)EndNamePTypeDescSubtype
Flags
06362-12unused0
6314651440021465144064ad4s18freebsd165
146514406551031465149167-12unused0
[..]
Decidedly, the end result is approximately 698GB for the usable partition,
the second choice giving me a padding on both sides of the freebsd slice.
You don't say what alternative geometry you entered here, if any .. but
really this whole thing needs to go away. Maybe it needs some heuristic
to see if it could _even possibly_ be an ancient HD needing alternative
geometry? In any case, anything after 2000 is definitely 'modern'.
Copying this to Bruce Cran, who's been hacking on sysinstall lately.
Moving on now, I choose the following
Standard MBR
Disklebel Editor
[..]
PartMountSizenewfs
--
ad4s1a/512MBUFS2 Y
ad4s1bswap4096MBSWAP
ad4s1d/var4973MBUFS2+S Y
ad4s1e/tmp512MBUFS2+S Y
ad4s1f/usr688GBUFS2+S Y
[..]
Re: Where to post FreeBSD tutorials?
On Thu 30 Dec 2010 at 17:17:31 PST Xn Nooby wrote: If I write a document about how to do something with FreeBSD, is there a good place to post it, or a link to it? Something like how to edit a video in FreeBSD, not official documentation. I usually have to google things to find them, and often find the answer on stackoverflow or howtoforge. Sometimes it hard to find things in google, and sometimes I'm not sure what I'm looking for. There's a howto section of the forums that's intended for precisely this kind of thing. http://forums.freebsd.org/forumdisplay.php?f=39 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
load windows
Help: I installed 8.2 today , I think I have forgot installed boot loader manager . When I was finished and reboot . The system just has bsd loader I can use F2 load windows previous Any one who know how to load linux also help . (I have a linux in system the loader was installed on its /boot not mbr ) So how can i do now! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: load windows
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:39:45 +0800, xinyou yan yxy@gmail.com wrote: Help: I installed 8.2 today , I think I have forgot installed boot loader manager . When I was finished and reboot . The system just has bsd loader I can use F2 load windows previous Any one who know how to load linux also help . (I have a linux in system the loader was installed on its /boot not mbr ) So how can i do now! According to your description, you want to boot into one out of three systems (FreeBSD, a Linux, a Windows). In this case, you should be able to run the Linux distribution you have from a live file system CD or DVD and restore its boot manager, LILO or GRUB. This boot manager should then deal with the OS selection for boot. Of course, you can also restart the FreeBSD installation and choose its boot manager to be installed. I think you should be able to do this through the running FreeBSD system, maybe using the sysinstall program. The FreeBSD boot manager would then show the operating systems' names in its choice list. As I am not a multi-booter, I'm not fully sure if this will work as intended. Usually I do just install FreeBSD's loader as there is nothing else to load. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: disyfiles
wayne mitchell wayne.mitchell...@gmail.com wrote: i would like to get a hold of all 'relevant' distilfes - the current size of the complete distfiles tree is 140GB i have cottoned onto the idea of having somebody copy the entire tree onto HDD and posting it over ... happy to pay a few bucks - though i am not pro - just for hobbies Once you've figured out which are 'relevant': http://on-disk.com/cms/index.php?wiki=CustomDisc You probably don't want to have them do the whole 140GB :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: Goodo. I'll try chopping a bit too .. Cleaning out my cruft, leaving only yours :D Assuming that's 'oseek=0', which is the default anyway. yes, a typo in my e-mail only, I got the cmd right in the installer. Fair enough. 'what BIOS thinks' here is fine on modern disks/boxes, but the issue here is what a new(ish) user might conceive of as 'modern'! I'm left to assume that I have a modern system w/ a modern hard-drive (duh lol) Yes, you should go with this. 'modern BIOS versions' here refers to anything later than (roughly) the mid-90s! An 'old machine' in this context - remembering sysinstall was originally written then - was one not using LBA (logical block addressing), when 8GB was a fairly big HD at least for IDE, when the 'big guys' were mostly using SCSI disks. That message is actually a lot less scary than it was until a couple of years ago, when it used to cause much more angst and regular posts, see: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/disks.c.diff?r1=1.160;r2=1.161;f=h I think it's fair to say, this is still causing some angst. :( I will check out your link when my brain is far less foggy then it is right now. I'm a bit woozy you could say, nyquil works fast on an empty stomach! You don't say what alternative geometry you entered here, if any .. but really this whole thing needs to go away. Maybe it needs some heuristic to see if it could _even possibly_ be an ancient HD needing alternative geometry? In any case, anything after 2000 is definitely 'modern'. Indeed, I didn't, because I wasn't given a choice by sysinstall, it made the choice for me. Copying this to Bruce Cran, who's been hacking on sysinstall lately. Left Bruce in the CC, hopefully he'll offer some useful advice. :D *crosses fingers* Ok, I've been hunting for a commit message I noticed relatively recently and can't find just now, but I think it was to the effect that Bruce had fixed some breakage when choosing 'A' for auto-partitioning, which you indicated having chosen above. It would appear that the layout changes with each new major revision of FBSD, I have different defaults on the old Sony VAIO on the floor next to me that is running 7.3/i386. Indeed you have, and sorry I missed recalling this issue till now. Bruce may have something to add, but if I'm not mistaken you may just need to NOT use 'A' with your 8.1 install media, but to enter values manually. Alternatively, this may be a good time to grab an 8.2-BETA1 disc1 or memstick image where this is likely fixed, but in any case, if I had a FreeBSD slice with even half of ~700GB I'd be very much more generous with / and /tmp, and /var if you'll be using eg big databases. HTH, Ian No worries on missing it, I'm not sure that helped, I farted around with it again earlier today with little more in the way of success. What I tried was to just set up '/' and swamp and it still prompted me about not being able to find /dev/ad4s1b. I will grab an 8.2B1 image tomorrow when I get up and try that, see if it fairs better. Right now, I must sleep, this side of the world is now just after 1am! C- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
